Prof. Ruth Dassonneville, Ph.D.

Ruth Dassonneville is Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science at the University of Montréal, where she holds a Canada Research Chair in Electoral Democracy. She is also a member of the Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship and of the Montréal Centre for International Studies.

Ruth Dassonneville holds a Ph.D. from the University of Leuven. She is broadly interested in public opinion and voting behavior, with particular attention for over-time changes in voters’ electoral behavior. Publications include Electoral Rules and Electoral Behaviour: The Scope of Effects (editor with Marc Hooghe and Michael S. Lewis-Beck, Routledge, 2017). The Economic Voter and Economic Crisis (editor with Michael S. Lewis-Beck, Acta Politica 49 (4), 2014). Her work has been published, amongst others, in the American Journal of Political Science, the British Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics and Political Behavior.

Ruth Dassonneville is member of the CAS Research Group "Exceptional Political Dynamics: Temporality, Turbulence, Transformation" of Prof. Dr. Klaus H. Goetz.

On 17 June 2020 she will give a livestream lecture on "The Cultural Sources of the Gender Gap in Voter Turnout".